231. Freedom

Shi Gui stuffed herself and shrunk herself in the quilt, she should have thought of it, there was no news from the other end of the garden three years ago, and there was no response to the things sent, if Shi Gui really went back, why didn't he come to report it?

The more I think about it, the more it hurts, and in the heat of the day, I wrapped myself in a dense airtight wind, curled up with a silkworm chrysalis, and leaned against the bed against the wall

I can't wait to be isolated from the world.

Ye Wenxin saw her like this, took a needlework basket and went out, and closed the door for her: "You also leave a seam for ventilation, I closed the door, and no one came in." ”

The water chestnut came in with the steamed jujube cake, and Ye Wenxin was sitting on the small pestle at the door, holding an embroidered bandage in his hand, stretching a piece of embroidery, and embroidering with black thread.

Water chestnut sent the cake to Ye Wenxin: "Sister Shi Gui is sick?" fell on the bed and did not move, and the girl took off her shoes, what is it if she is not sick.

Ye Wenxin smiled: "She's not comfortable, let's not quarrel with her." Put the flower cake on the low table, blow it cold and then eat it, see that the water chestnut is very greedy, and order some flower cake: "I don't need it now, if you want to eat, take a knife and cut it, don't burn your hands." ”

The water chestnut blushed on her face, and Mrs. Liu's steamed cake had already been eaten in the kitchen, and she stuffed a large piece into her mouth, almost burning her tongue, and she was embarrassed and shook her head: "I also like to eat cold." ”

She kept up with the crumbs of the glutinous rice cake, Ye Wenxin didn't joke with her, and only lowered her head to do needlework, the veil is more difficult than the knot, but the sale of such light yarn is more than the knot, it turns out that she doesn't know that firewood and rice are expensive, and if she plans to stand on her own, she has to do her best, and she can do her best at this time, this is the only one she can do.

Shi Gui thought more, told her that everything has a season, spring peach, summer bamboo, autumn chrysanthemum, winter plum, it turns out that the embroidered colors on the clothes at home are also divided into seasons, just think about the handkerchief sachet and pouch tassel knot she used herself, she knows that the color and style are changed season by season, and they are all consigned to the city, and there is no need to think about sales.

She embroidered a silver chrysanthemum on her hand, a large one occupied most of the whole yarn, the water chestnut could see it, she looked at her with her cheeks, stared at Ye Wenxin with good eyes, her long eyebrows and small mouth, her eyes were like stars, and she couldn't turn her eyes when she smiled slightly.

Water chestnut can't say anything aside, only know that Miss Song is very good-looking, better than the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the village, she used to love to run crazy on the Zhuangzi, Miss Song came, she was willing to stay in the yard, watch them knead fragrant balls, arrange the patterns on the pastries, and then learn to tie knots.

She looked at it with her cheeks in her hands, Ye Wenxin also smiled at her, gave her a piece of sugar, water chestnut in her mouth, stretched out her head to look at the embroidered basket, there was a piece of tulle in it, why didn't the girl get a needle, she embroidered for more than two months, and only half of it was done, and she didn't know what it was, and then she stared at it, and she knew that it was a word, and it was similar to the couplet posted at the door.

Tongue: "Girl, what is this embroidery?" Embroidered flowers and leaves are also fine, this is a very much, water chestnut is young, legs and feet are diligent, close to each other, you can smell the sweet smell from her mouth, she asked, Ye Wenxin smiled: "Embroidered scriptures." ”

You don't have to play the tricks, you can embroider them just by looking at them, and the water chestnut widened her eyes: "The girl is really amazing." She didn't dare to reach out and touch it, and looked at it with a blank eye.

Ye Wenxin put down the embroidered bandage, shook off the tulle, and showed her a word by word: "Your sister Shi Gui doesn't have much effort after learning, do you want to learn?"

The water chestnut widened his eyes, the Zhuang family is a boy and may not be able to read and learn words, when the year is good, he can also send out to read for two years, the year is not good, he dropped out of school and came back to work, knew a year of words, and then went to the city as an apprentice, when he said that when he was pro, it was much more sought-after than just ploughing the field, and he had never heard of a girl who was literate.

The water chestnut shrunk his neck and waved his hand: "I can't make it, I can't understand any of this crooked way." "The eyes are full of insect-like words, and it is not much more difficult to learn this than to learn to embroider with knots.

Ye Wenxin smiled: "Why can't it be? Learn one word a day, and you will be able to understand the book in a year." ”

The water chestnut rubbed the corners of his clothes, folded his feet, and blushed: "My mother doesn't allow it." Saying that, he lowered his head and divided the line for Ye Wenxin, even the line was just learned, they knew so much, she was just a wild girl, she opened her mouth and said that she wanted to learn to read and write, and said that she would eat people.

Ye Wenxin looked at her once, and didn't say it again, but the water chestnut was fiddling with the silk thread in his hand, raising his head from time to time to look at her, biting his lip, learning words is not very useful, can she still paint and write poems like a girl, paper and pen are so expensive, my mother will beat her.

Thinking so listlessly, she didn't even eat the cake, slipped out of the hospital, found a few partners and ran around the mountain, and white smoke rose from the chimney of the first family, so she came down the mountain, brought a dozen pine fungi, and pulled the bellows for Mrs. Liu to light the fire.

Shi Gui didn't come out to eat at night, and when she was brought to the small courtyard, Ye Wenxin took two chopsticks and dishes for her, pushed the door and entered the house, Shi Gui was still shrunk in the quilt, but the person had already fallen asleep.

Ye Wenxin sighed, reached out and touched the pillow towel was wet, there were still unfinished tears on his face, put the bowl on the head of the bed, turned around and went out, and the water chestnut sent the soaked honey-soaked sour dates, and said: "My mother said, if it is not good, she will invite the doctor to come, if it is cold and fry a fried ginger soup at home, drink a bowl and sweat." ”

really fried a bowl of ginger soup, Ye Wenxin brought it in, Shi Gui hadn't woken up yet, put it by the window for her to dry, and slept on the couch at night, and when she had enough to lie down, she would have the strength to get up.

In the middle of the night, the wind rustled the trees in the courtyard, and the wind Ye Wenxin woke up, the window in the house was still open, and a cool feeling blew in, she tightened her clothes and closed the window, and saw Shi Gui sitting on the stone steps through the window, holding his knees with his hands, looking up at the sky, and not moving.

Ye Wenxin took a shawl, walked to Shi Gui's side, and put it on her shoulder, so she simply stopped talking and hugged Shi Gui in her arms.

Ye Wenxin was born delicate, although he was older than Shi Gui, he looked more tender than her, stretched out his hand to hold Shi Gui, patted her back, there were many fireflies in the summer, there were also in the grass in the small courtyard, and there were stars, and it looked even worse in the middle of the night, as if the stars had fallen, one bright and one dark, circling the two of them.

In the summer night, there are as many stars as fireflies, densely packed with the sky, the countryside is sunbathed in the daytime, and when the wind blows at night, it will immediately cool down, Ye Wenxin tightened the shawl for her, Shi Gui suddenly opened his mouth: "I don't believe that people can be so gone, my mother looks weak, but she is the strongest in her bones." "Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to support such a family.

Shi Gui refused to give up, Ye Wenxin didn't say anything sad, and said with a smile: "That's right." People live a breath, this breath is gone, and there is no difference between walking with the corpse, she held Shi Gui's hand: "You live a good life, there will always be a day when we meet." ”

has fallen into this situation, it can be more difficult, the two heads met, I don't know when I went back to bed, I slept in a daze, and the next day before the light was bright, the water chestnut entered the yard, put his head into the house, and called Ye Wenxin softly: "Girl." ”

Ye Wenxin opened his eyes at this time, and saw the water chestnut standing by the bed with a towel in his hand, and he said after a while: "I want to learn words." ”

Shi Gui woke up and heard this sentence first, covered his head and couldn't sit up, his throat seemed to have swallowed sand, and the cold wind blew all night yesterday, Ye Wenxin was not sick, she was sick first.

Before Ye Wenxin could agree, he saw Shi Gui covering his head, and the water chestnut saw that the ginger tea was still "oops": "But I didn't eat yesterday's tea, this is not good, it came out, and the fever in the summer is the most important." ”

Neither can it be baked nor cold, quickly put down the basin and let Mrs. Liu fry the tea soup again, Ye Wenxin dressed and combed her hair indiscriminately, Shi Gui still wanted to move to the couch, she refused, pressed her and said: "You have a good rest, and when you are well, you will think about it again." ”

She couldn't think of anything else at this time, her mind was full of things yesterday, and then she remembered that Song Mian said that she wanted to redeem herself, but before she could think about it, she threw it behind again, drank ginger soup wrapped in the quilt and sweated, and heard Ye Wenxin teaching water chestnut to recite poetry in the courtyard.

Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaves He Tiantian, sentence by sentence into the ear, Shi Gui's body is hot with the brain, and she sweats all over her body, and her brain is clear, she can't go at this time, not only can't go, but she also has to stay in Jinling, even if she redeems herself, she has to stay in Jinling, she doesn't know where Qiu Niang's stone is, they always know her, if she finds it, she can also get the letter.

The nose was blocked, he exhaled with his mouth open, and his mouth was dry after a while, Shi Gui propped himself up and drank a large cup of tea, and then retracted back and sweated, sweating all over his body, thinking of Song Mian, he was not sure if he meant that.

Song Mian's temperament, if it weren't for that thought, he wouldn't have been able to say such a thing, but Shi Gui felt confused, his heart was soaked in coptis juice at this time, and he couldn't even feel what sweetness was, Song Mian just said something that was a hundred times sweeter than this, and she couldn't laugh at this moment.

The body is hot, and I always feel that I can't, Shi Guishi doesn't plan to get married, Qiu Niang Shi is in love, what kind of life is there with a Yu Pozi on the head? Not to mention that if you can hold it up, you don't have to rely on a man.

She originally wanted to go to Suizhou, there are many unmarried women in that place, and even the chronicles of the time have been written, citing it as a wonder, not only in Suizhou, and then the coastal state capital in Suizhou gradually has a women's school, women gather in one place, support each other to beg for a living, and the silk weavers and silkworms who go to the street to guard the shop and weave silkworms do not have a lot of women who can't make a living, and it is always much freer than here when they get there.

Shi Gui exhaled a deep breath of turbidity, pulled the quilt over his head, if Song Mian mentioned it again, she also had to ask to understand, he had the idea of redeeming her body, and he didn't mention whether she was willing to do it first, just ask him, what about after redeeming himself?